Online Kannada Tools

“Kannada Language Tools” is a collection of programmes to handle the Kannada language on the internet. It is very difficult to write Kannada for the web without a proper assistive programme and a Unicode font. Here we try to integrate some tools available on the internet. By using these tools a person can easily type the Kannada language. The method of Kannada Transliteration typing is used here. It is great pleasure for everybody to express the ideas in native language. The problem is typing in Kannada is not very easy. Every different font will provide their own keyboard layout and generally, they are very complicated to handle. Unicode fonts will provide unified keyboard layout to type Kannada. In Transliteration method just type Kannada in English and the software will convert it into Kannada Unicode text. The text is available to copy and paste in emails, web pages, documents etc. A Unicode compatible font is the only requirement for proper display of this text. And Most of the Kannada Unicode fonts are freely available for download on the internet. Download Kannada Unicode fonts from this website and install into the system will enable to read and write in the Kannada language online. A javascript enabled modern browser like Google chrome, Firefox, Safari, Vivaldi or Opera is the basic requirement to operate these tools.

An English-Kannada dictionary is provided to get meanings of English words in Kannada. The dictionary is a very helpful tool in Kannada translation or reading. Kannada translation tool is working using machine translation API from google. The translation may not be perfect and must be reviewed by Kannada language experts before using it. The translation will give a rough idea about the sentence and meaning of the sentence in the Kannada language.

A help page about how to install Kannada fonts in a computer is included. In most modern operating systems like GNU/Linux, Windows 10,8,7 the language support is available by default. Just copy the font file to the appropriate folder will enable the Kannada language rendering. In modern Android phones, the language support and the fonts are available by default. Just by changing the language will give you a Kannada interface of the phone.